{"id":653,"date":"2011-09-12T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2011-09-12T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T01:48:03","slug":"a-new-member-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/a-new-member-of-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"A new member of the family…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of you didn’t even know that our son Loren and his wife Anne were expecting a baby. \u00a0We were waiting to tell everyone until she was a little further along. \u00a0They went for their first prenatal visit thinking the pregnancy was about 12 weeks along and being concerned about signs of a miscarriage. \u00a0They discovered that the pregnancy \u00a0was really 19 weeks along and that due to complications, the pregnancy wouldn’t be able to continue and their baby boy would be born that night.<\/p>\n

At 9:10 pm August 18th, their first child and our first grandchild Toby was born. \u00a0He lived 1 hour and 53 minutes. \u00a0He weighed 9 oz and was 9″ long — he was a teeny, tiny perfect little boy. \u00a0Alan and I were able to be there to help name him, hold him, sing to him and love him. \u00a0It was a surprise, disappointment and gift that none of us were expecting. \u00a0Loren and Anne were amazingly at peace with everything and while disappointed that they couldn’t have more time with their son, were thrilled to have him to be a part of their eternal family.<\/p>\n

A wonderful “bereavement specialist” came to the hospital to provide very loving service. \u00a0She took prints and made molds of\u00a0his darling little hands and feet. \u00a0She cleaned and dressed him, wrapping him in the blue blanket that I had crocheted for him. Then she took some precious photos for Loren and Anne to treasure.<\/p>\n

As family and friends have found out about our unexpected loss, everyone has been so kind and sympathetic. \u00a0We feel so blessed.<\/p>\n

Loren and Anne have created a blog for Toby<\/a>, to give people a chance to express\u00a0condolences and offer service in Toby’s behalf.\u00a0If you would like to submit an entry, you can fill in the submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Many of you didn’t even know that our son Loren and his wife Anne were expecting a baby. \u00a0We were waiting to tell everyone until she was a little further along. \u00a0They went for their first prenatal visit thinking the pregnancy was about 12 weeks along and being concerned about signs of a miscarriage. \u00a0They … Continue reading A new member of the family…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,5,18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-family","category-home-life","category-loren-anne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9LkuZ-ax","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}